Medea · c. AD 50
Persons of the Play
Translated by Frank Justus Miller (1907)
Persons of the Play
MEDEA, daughter of Aeëtes, King of Colchis, and wife of Jason
JASON, son of Aeson, and nephew of Pelias, the usurping king of Thessaly; organizer and leader of the Argonautic expedition to Colchis in quest of the golden fleece
CREON, King of Corinth, who had received into his hospitable kingdom Medea and Jason, fugitives from Thessaly, after Medea had plotted the death of Pelias
NURSE of Medea
MESSENGER
TWO SONS of Medea and Jason (mute)
CHORUS of Corinthians, friendly to Jason and hostile to Medea
The time of the play is confined to the single day of the culmination of the tragedy, the day proposed by Creon for the banishment of Medea and the marriage of Jason to Creüsa, daughter of Creon.
The scene is in Corinth, in the court of the house of Jason.
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Seneca, Lucius Annaeus. Medea, Persons of the Play. Translated by Frank Justus Miller. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/work/medea-seneca-miller/0/.
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Seneca, Lucius Annaeus. Medea, Persons of the Play. Translated by Frank Justus Miller. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/work/medea-seneca-miller/0/.